A wikipedia for sign languages

[Ronald Dettloff]

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From: Steve Slevinski <slevin at signpuddle.net>
To: SignWriting List <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
Sent: Tue, January 5, 2010 11:52:04 AM
Subject: Re: [sw-l] A wikipedia for sign languages

Hi Gerard,

Thanks for the words of support.

The SignWriting MediaWiki Plugin is still beta, but as far as it goes, the SWMP is ready to go.

I'd like to talk about what the plugin is and what it isn't.

The plugin is compatible with open culture due to the specific licenses chosen.  The font is available under the Open Font License.  The documentation is available under Creative Commons by-sa.  The code is available under the GPL.

The plugin uses the open standard data format of Binary SignWriting.  BSW is documented and implemented within the SignWriting Image Server.  BSW libraries are available for JavaScript and PHP.  BSW has a working Unicode encoding/decoding proposal.

The plugin is really a SignWriting media viewer and editor.  Entire sections of sign text can be displayed within MediaWiki.  The sign texts are displayed as several image columns.  Multiple sign texts can be used on each article page. 
The SignText editor is directly available within MediaWiki.  Each section of sign text can be loaded in the editor, with the changes saved back to the article page. 
The plugin has several limitations:
1) no internal or external linking within a sign text
2) no page names in SignWriting
3) no markup integration
4) not human readable within MediaWiki edit
5) long lines make for an ugly diff
6) no localization

I'm very proud of the SignWriting MediaWiki Plugin.  It's only going to get better from here.

Regards,
-Steve



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